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The administrative computer systems used in the county courts do not enable easy identification of whether cases are brought specifically by local authorities, of the specific case type listed. All relevant cases are logged on the system and the claimant name is recorded. However, the statistics requested could only be derived following extensive manual searching of individual case records, which would incur disproportionate cost.

In addition, the numbers of orders made in magistrates courts are not held centrally.

Legal Aid

Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much was spent on legal aid in (a) North West Cambridgeshire, (b) Cambridgeshire, (c) the East of England and (d) England and Wales in each of the last 10 years. [275920]

Mr. Hanson: The Legal Services Commission (LSC) does not record legal aid expenditure in such as way as to readily ascribe it to (a) North West Cambridgeshire or (b) Cambridgeshire. Obtaining this information would require a manual extraction of data, which would incur disproportionate cost.

Legal aid expenditure, in cash terms, for each of the past 10 years in (d) England and Wales is given in the following table. Expenditure for (c) the East of England region is available only from 2001-02 as obtaining this information for earlier years would require a manual extraction of data, which would incur disproportionate cost. Expenditure has been attributed on the basis of the location of the court in which proceedings were conducted for some legal aid schemes and the location of the service provider for others. Small elements of expenditure, for example, CDS Direct, have been excluded as they cannot easily be allocated to specific regions.


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£ million

East of England England and Wales

1998-99

n/a

1,628

1999-2000

n/a

1,550

2000-01

n/a

1,664

2001-02

113

1,717

2002-03

123

1,909

2003-04

132

2,077

2004-05

142

2,038

2005-06

142

2,028

2006-07

141

1,980

2007-08

133

2,023

n/a = Not available.

Lindholme Prison

Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners he expects to be released early from HM Prison Lindholme in the next six months. [275534]

Mr. Straw: The number discharged from prison are dependent on a variety of factors, including the profile of the prison population in each establishment, the specifics of legislation or policies pertaining at the time, those received into the prison, movements between prisons and in the case of Lindholme the practicalities of removing foreign national prisoners to their home countries. No assessment has therefore been made on the number of releases, early or otherwise, from any specific prison.

Estimates of the prison population as a whole are generally published annually. This gives the projected monthly prison population in England and Wales for the next seven years. Sub-population (such as gender) estimates are presented alongside the effects of legislation, sentencing activity, and other factors relevant to the prison population. The relevant page on the Ministry of Justice website is:

Members: Correspondence

Jeremy Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice when the Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, the right hon. Member for Delyn (Mr. Hanson) plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth of 18 March 2009, on Clifton Court Nursing Home. [276278]

Mr. Hanson: I am sorry for the delay. A reply has been sent and the hon. Member should receive it shortly.

Prisoners’ Discharge Grants

Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much on average prisoners received in a discharge grant in 2008. [275554]

Mr. Straw: Prison Service Order (PSO) 6400 (Discharge) states that all eligible prisoners aged 18 or over sentenced to a custodial sentence of more than 14 days must be given a discharge grant of £46 on release. Prisoners released from custody will not receive any benefits immediately and the grant is intended to meet their immediate basic needs.


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Prisoners in the following categories are not eligible for a discharge grant:

Prisons: Barking and Dagenham

Jon Cruddas: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what area of land is required to build the proposed prison on the Beam Park West site; [275075]

(2) what proportion of the London Development Agency's Beam Park West site is required to be secured in order to build the prison he proposes. [275118]

Mr. Straw: Our intention is to purchase the entire Beam Park West site. A minimum of 35 acres is required for a 1,500 place prison.

Prisons: Location

Jon Cruddas: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 27 April 2009, Official Report, columns 569-71, on prisons and probation, what factors he took into account in deciding on sites for the new prisons. [275826]

Mr. Straw: Criteria including size, location, shape and topography of sites as well as public and private transport and planning polices were taken into account during the site search.

Young Offenders

Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many inmates of each age group there were in each young offender institution in each year since 1997. [272025]

Mr. Hanson: Available information provided in the following table shows the number of 15-17 year olds and young adults under sentence in prison establishments in England and Wales as at the end of June 2002 to June 2007 (latest available).

Young adults are those aged 18-20 and those 21-year-olds who were aged 20 or under at conviction who have not been reclassified as part of the adult population.

It is not possible to provide information from 1997 without incurring disproportionate cost.

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.


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Population in prison establishments( 1, 2) under sentence, by age, June 2002 to June 2007
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

15-17 18-20 15-17 18-20 15-17 18-20 15-17 18-20 15-17 18-20 15-17 18-20

Altcourse

1

106

0

84

0

65

0

82

0

134

0

150

Ashfield

249

64

171

133

254

56

265

44

294

63

319

66

Aylesbury

0

328

0

292

0

318

0

363

1

346

1

347

Belmarsh

0

41

0

22

0

11

0

16

0

25

0

15

Blakenhurst

0

28

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Brinsford

173

280

171

259

177

260

182

256

199

263

145

314

Bristol

0

20

0

0

0

27

0

30

0

30

0

38

Brockhill

13

38

9

35

1

16

0

0

0

0

0

0

Bronzefield

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

12

0

30

0

11

Bullingdon

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

22

0

0

0

0

Bullwood Hall

28

108

14

100

17

19

15

90

0

0

0

0

Castington

178

143

140

126

136

229

126

205

141

226

134

236

Chelmsford

0

166

0

110

1

149

2

118

0

142

0

199

Cookham Wood

0

0

0

26

0

15

0

0

14

4

16

7

Deerbolt

0

445

0

375

0

401

0

390

0

367

0

390

Doncaster

1

287

0

222

0

258

0

260

0

262

0

311

Dorchester

0

14

0

19

0

19

0

28

0

30

0

19

Dover

0

23

0

33

0

22

0

38

0

16

0

14

Downview

0

0

0

0

0

0

12

4

16

5

15

1

Drake Hall

0

39

0

24

0

26

0

0

0

25

0

0

East Sutton Park

0

0

0

24

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Eastwood Park

8

52

6

38

8

51

11

34

17

63

14

67

Elmley

0

53

0

53

0

54

1

52

0

70

0

86

Exeter

0

47

0

66

0

49

0

73

0

51

0

0

Feltham

287

333

264

323

229

354

217

372

208

367

208

354

Forest Bank

0

213

0

226

0

138

0

138

0

159

0

109

Foston Hall

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

11

6

Glen Parva

0

764

0

694

1

650

0

746

0

737

0

756

Gloucester

0

13

0

0

0

16

0

18

0

17

1

10

Guys Marsh

0

113

0

104

0

121

0

68

0

67

0

65

Haslar

0

0

0

0

0

10

1

10

0

14

0

0

Highdown

1

76

0

77

0

55

0

64

1

78

1

145

Hindley

171

325

145

332

147

297

146

250

154

260

147

339

Hollesley Bay

168

65

2

19

0

13

0

14

0

15

0

21

Holloway

13

56

10

49

9

38

2

60

1

105

0

109

Holme House

0

30

0

50

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Hull

0

99

0

121

0

91

0

96

0

90

0

119

Huntercombe

257

88

212

52

293

64

285

53

299

55

288

68

Lancaster Farms

170

285

166

270

168

271

208

295

205

291

217

290

Lewes

0

40

0

19

1

28

1

32

0

41

0

29

Lindholme

0

0

0

11

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Low Newton

1

77

1

62

0

57

0

58

0

36

0

21

Moorland

0

324

0

420

0

255

0

352

0

251

0

347

New Hall

46

52

34

46

42

50

32

44

22

49

19

53

Northallerton

0

222

0

205

0

214

0

191

0

210

0

233

Norwich

0

149

0

140

0

138

0

150

0

159

0

156

Onley

188

295

194

310

0

199

0

157

0

160

0

199

Pare

16

390

19

421

21

317

15

346

34

340

51

351

Peterborough

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

29

0

31

0

49

Portland

0

431

0

383

0

392

0

343

1

409

0

464

Reading

0

242

0

224

0

243

0

267

0

261

2

246

Rochester

0

152

0

143

0

300

0

344

0

363

0

368

Stoke Heath

166

447

112

454

162

422

162

428

180

456

178

469

Styal

5

77

0

25

0

0

0

38

0

39

0

59

Swinfen Hall

3

246

0

236

0

287

0

306

0

306

0

337

Thorn Cross

26

146

25

133

35

196

35

176

22

156

23

184

Usk/Prescoed

0

0

0

10

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Warren Hill

0

0

163

27

173

35

183

28

183

33

175

36

Werrington

116

14

90

23

108

31

114

19

133

22

0

0

Wetherby

293

40

285

43

250

30

290

51

284

51

287

67

Woodhill

0

97

0

86

3

61

5

75

6

65

3

82

Other establishments

0

53

0

60

1

69

0

62

0

65

0

90

(1 )To reduce the size of the table, where inmates for both age groups combined per establishment are less than 10 the establishment figures are included in “Other establishments”.
(2) For accuracy, figures are excluded where inmates for both age groups combined per establishment are less than 10.

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